Evan accepted Rose because he believed in her love, and judged it by the strength of his own; her sacrifice of her position he accepted, because in his soul he knew he should have done no less.

He mounted to the level of her nobleness, and losing nothing of the beauty of what she did, it was not so strange to him.
Still there was the baleful reflection that he was second fiddle to his beloved.

No harmony came of it in his mind.

How could he take an initiative?
He walked forth on the lawn, where a group had gathered under the shade of a maple, consisting of Drummond Forth, Mrs.
Evremonde, Mrs.Shorne, Mr.George Uplift, Seymour Jocelyn, and Ferdinand Laxley.

A little apart Juliana Bonner was walking with Miss Carrington.